Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes,
and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.
Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are
surveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991). In addition,
annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating class
for a number of years after their initial participation. The Monitoring the Future Study
has been funded under a series of investigator-initiated competing research grants from the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the
National Institutes of Health. MTF is conducted at the
Survey Research Center in the
Institute for Social Research at the
University of Michigan.

Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire
Responses From the Nation's High School Seniors. Monitoring the Future
12th-grade descriptive results for nearly 2,000 items are now available
in annual volumes for 1975 through 2010. Comparison between volumes allows readers
to understand the changes in viewpoints, attitudes, and experiences of young people
over the past 36 years. Questions include drug use and views about drugs, delinquency
and victimization, changing roles for women, confidence in social institutions,
concerns about energy and ecology, and social and ethical attitudes.

The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD)
completed its fifth data collection in 2011 in a collaborative effort in nearly 40 European countries. Modeled largely after
Monitoring the Future, this series of surveys reports national survey results on 15- and 16-year olds and MTF data from 10th-graders are included.
The goal is to compare and track substance use among countries. A report
of the study's 2011 results is available. Visit the ESPAD website for
information on securing the full report. Comparisons with results in the U.S. are in a short
press release from MTF.